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Sometimes I look at my pile of shame and knowing that it takes me about a week to paint a single unit (or bigger model) I worry wether I'll ever get through it, and the future oldworld release looms, because I will throw all my saved up money at it like a involuntary muscle jerk.. you know.. like how you try to block an incoming ball during dodgeball.. and the ball being the release.. and you're just taking it in the crotch or face.. and then as you crawl home.. crying.. all your money drops from your pockets along the way.. and rolls down the slope to your mountain cabin, into the warhammer store.

:/


Too many orks.. even though I like em how will I ever finish em up.. ugh

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Ohyeah, almost forgot.. more orks..

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Its not like my active table (what I'm working on right now) is any less cluttered.. nor the 'unfinished projects to the right..

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Did I mention I still have a complete unpainted Nurgle demons (aos) army (with three more closed boxes also visible in the 1st img) I haven't even decided the paintscheme for (but contemplating making them dark gray with white voodoo (face/body) paint and agapite(read: rose taupe)armor with golden detail.. atleast that's the best idea so far.

P.s. now that I'm at it.. can someone come to my house irl and buy my 90% of my roomspace occupying displaytable from me? (serious)
(netherlands, frysland)


-Leopold Helveine.

There are people with far worse PoS.

If you can afford it, and it’s not causing domestic problems, don’t worry about it.

I’m a slow painter. My stated goal is one model a week. I do better then that, generally getting 80-100 done in a year. But there are times when even my primed and ready to paint pile has like a year and a half worth of stuff in it.

Awareness is the first step to a solution. How fast do you paint, vs. how much do you buy? How deep is the Pile of Shame actually?

Once you have the facts, the next step is to take action.
Make a goal to paint more than you buy. This might help motivate to to paint stuff a little quicker, as you get rewarded with new kits when you finish old stuff.
Is there stuff in the PoS that you are never going to paint? Can you find it a new home?
Shiny Model Syndrome is a real thing. You are going to want all the new things, but do you need them? Let your logic act as a check for yourt impulses.

But at the end of the day, do what makes you happy. Sometimes that spending your entertainment budget on plastic that’s not going to see a paintbrush for 5 years at the rate you paint.

It’s all good.

 Nevelon wrote:
There are people with far worse PoS.

If you can afford it, and it’s not causing domestic problems, don’t worry about it.

I’m a slow painter. My stated goal is one model a week. I do better then that, generally getting 80-100 done in a year. But there are times when even my primed and ready to paint pile has like a year and a half worth of stuff in it.

Awareness is the first step to a solution. How fast do you paint, vs. how much do you buy? How deep is the Pile of Shame actually?

Once you have the facts, the next step is to take action.
Make a goal to paint more than you buy. This might help motivate to to paint stuff a little quicker, as you get rewarded with new kits when you finish old stuff.
Is there stuff in the PoS that you are never going to paint? Can you find it a new home?
Shiny Model Syndrome is a real thing. You are going to want all the new things, but do you need them? Let your logic act as a check for yourt impulses.

But at the end of the day, do what makes you happy. Sometimes that spending your entertainment budget on plastic that’s not going to see a paintbrush for 5 years at the rate you paint.

It’s all good.

The thing with want/need here is that I tend to want/need these parts but along the way it takes so much time with other armies/units that I slowly lose interest. Hoping that that interest will be rekindled..

There are plenty of units (even many painted) that I would love to sell (as shown on the display table, pretty much all my stormcast and all the dwarfs on that are for sale, also the cities humans on the other side, and probably willing to sell the 8pointers too, but also the 40k admech on the unfinished cupboard section)

I think the only thing I've ever bought that I really don't even want anymore is the admech to begin with, because its too much tiny parts for me.

The nurgle demons/mortals aos - were a huge impulse buy for me but im still happy with the idea of making it into a small-game army (if i even ever get to play a game)

Thing is im afraid of comitting to the oldworld (which I still will -_- ) because of this huge backlog.

Thanks for your reply btw.

While I too have a massive pile of shame... which AdMec so you want to sell? Can't see it on your pics

I wouldn't worry about it. Ask yourself, is this my hobby or a job? As in, do I do this to enjoy myself, or to finish some sort of contract I have made with an employer?

My PoS is bigger than yours, and as long as storage space doesn't become an issue, I let that stuff sit on the shelves. Maybe I'll finish that stuff in my pensioner years, maybe I die before finishing it all.. doesn't really matter to me. Just sell it all when I'm gone if it's still in the box (but DO check current scalper price rates before selling hehehe!)

I don't quite know what to say. Without wanting to sound insulting, at first glance, yes. Yes it looks like a problem. And coming here to ask about it might be like seeking advice to get off cocaine from someone who's twitching and sniffing an awful lot.

tauist wrote:I wouldn't worry about it. Ask yourself, is this my hobby or a job? As in, do I do this to enjoy myself, or to finish some sort of contract I have made with an employer?

Seems like neither, at this point. Is it a hobby or a job to stress about a growing pile of unopened boxes and untouched products that represent a sink of hundreds (thousands?) of pounds, to the point that you break down and go online looking for help or validation?

1. Ork players don’t have Piles of Shame, we have “Bitz Boxes”.
2. Are you somehow morally opposed to having commission-painted minis? If not, you could spend the money you would ordinarily pay for new boxes on having someone else paint whole squads of your existing armies.
3. Marie Kondo that $#!+. Put the whole pile on one side of the room and mini by mini, box by box, ask yourself if each item will ever see the light of day, either because it’s part of an army that you realistically will get to play or you love the mini so much that it has to be a part of your collection. Divide it into the must keep and the Meh, and sell the latter to paint the former.
4. Good luck!

I have bought a fair bit of stuff over the years that is still unopened, but I don't worry too much about it. I can sell it if I want to, or get to it one day. I think as long as your hobby purchases aren't encroaching on other parts of your life (i.e. your bills are paid, you aren't going without a social life or holidays, your children have shoes without hole in them etc) then it's no problem to have indulged yourself once in a while. If you are worried because that pile represents other things that that money could/should have been spent on, then that is the issue that needs addressing.

A few thoughts

1) Every time I've hit the "my to make pile is too huge" a LOT of that has come from having so much to do and so much I could do that I don't quite know where to start with it all.

Thus I've personally found a MASSIVE help is to get yourself a plan. It doesn't matter what the plan is and it can have many focal points, but the key was to establish a plan.
It might just be "paint a model" or could be "paint X army" or " build y army" etc...

Basically give yourself a bit of structure to what you do. This way you can focus your energies on fewer avenues and those that you're not focusing on aren't as much of a distraction

2) Set yourself easy to achieve goals. This is all about positive reinforcement. Not just having a plan (however detailed or simple or long/short it is); but also having goals and targets that you can achieve within sensible timeframes.
This is about shifting "urgh it takes a week to paint a model" to "YAH! Completed another model this week, this is awesome".
It's about building reward into your hobby


3) Sorting it out. This can mean putting some things into storage, others into boxes; others into shelves and such. This is all about sorting out your hobby so that you know what you do and don't have and where it is, but at the same time removing the general clutter from the situation.

4) Clear your immediate work area. This can be a big help, clear up your immediate work area where you build/paint.
Cut down until only your next handful of planned models are on the table. It also helps with sorting out your tools, paints and such so that they are all easily within reach or at least you know where they are. No more faffing for a tool or losing it or having a mess so that you can hardly paint for fear of paint splattering on other models or parts getting lost under other parts etc..



I find sorting, storing, sifting and coming up with a plan helpful in giving structure and focus. I also find that its easier to then separate off a chunk of models that you might want to consider selling. You can put them to one side in your sorting and store them up and make a proper choice when you're less charged with the "must clear hobby space" mentality. I find if you go into clearing out with that mental approach you can clear out a LOT of stuff; but you can also end up clearing out stuff that later (a week, month, year) you want again (and it always costs more by then).

So sometimes just sorting and separating and mulling over a choice a little longer can be worth it .

 Pyroalchi wrote:
While I too have a massive pile of shame... which AdMec so you want to sell? Can't see it on your pics

3rd pic on the right inside the cupboard, theres two castellan robots with their datasmith and an ironstrider.

 Gulgog TufToof wrote:
1. Ork players don’t have Piles of Shame, we have “Bitz Boxes”.
2. Are you somehow morally opposed to having commission-painted minis? If not, you could spend the money you would ordinarily pay for new boxes on having someone else paint whole squads of your existing armies.
3. Marie Kondo that $#!+. Put the whole pile on one side of the room and mini by mini, box by box, ask yourself if each item will ever see the light of day, either because it’s part of an army that you realistically will get to play or you love the mini so much that it has to be a part of your collection. Divide it into the must keep and the Meh, and sell the latter to paint the former.
4. Good luck!

1: fair nuf ya git. me gotz atleshd 4 bitz boxes alreddy az ya can see in da ferst pic.
2: Yeah i don't think i'd like to have others paint my units because the painting (as in custom job) is the only reason I even buy WH considering I've never met anyone I could play this game with and don't like the idea of solo games.
3: I love the orks but currently trying to focus on finishing my darn tyranids (and note to self .. NEVER BUY ANYTHING WITH WINGS AGAIN) before I can even get to em..(if oldworld doesn't bust this)
4: *grabs dice..*

5: *rolls ones*

 Overread wrote:
A few thoughts

1) Every time I've hit the "my to make pile is too huge" a LOT of that has come from having so much to do and so much I could do that I don't quite know where to start with it all.

Thus I've personally found a MASSIVE help is to get yourself a plan. It doesn't matter what the plan is and it can have many focal points, but the key was to establish a plan.
It might just be "paint a model" or could be "paint X army" or " build y army" etc...

Basically give yourself a bit of structure to what you do. This way you can focus your energies on fewer avenues and those that you're not focusing on aren't as much of a distraction

2) Set yourself easy to achieve goals. This is all about positive reinforcement. Not just having a plan (however detailed or simple or long/short it is); but also having goals and targets that you can achieve within sensible timeframes.
This is about shifting "urgh it takes a week to paint a model" to "YAH! Completed another model this week, this is awesome".
It's about building reward into your hobby


3) Sorting it out. This can mean putting some things into storage, others into boxes; others into shelves and such. This is all about sorting out your hobby so that you know what you do and don't have and where it is, but at the same time removing the general clutter from the situation.

4) Clear your immediate work area. This can be a big help, clear up your immediate work area where you build/paint.
Cut down until only your next handful of planned models are on the table. It also helps with sorting out your tools, paints and such so that they are all easily within reach or at least you know where they are. No more faffing for a tool or losing it or having a mess so that you can hardly paint for fear of paint splattering on other models or parts getting lost under other parts etc..



I find sorting, storing, sifting and coming up with a plan helpful in giving structure and focus. I also find that its easier to then separate off a chunk of models that you might want to consider selling. You can put them to one side in your sorting and store them up and make a proper choice when you're less charged with the "must clear hobby space" mentality. I find if you go into clearing out with that mental approach you can clear out a LOT of stuff; but you can also end up clearing out stuff that later (a week, month, year) you want again (and it always costs more by then).

So sometimes just sorting and separating and mulling over a choice a little longer can be worth it .

1: Actually.. I think this is the comment that helps me most right now.. I had not even thought of that... its true that I had alot more fun in doing a challenge (the ascension one) on this site and have alot less fun in just randomly "getting units done" so to speak.. So maybe my frustration with my pile is mostly just a rut blues.

2: stupidly I usually feel a bit depressed whenever I finish a model.. the high point of this hobby for me are the assemblee phase, the custom palet taking shape phase and the finishing detail (paint) phase.

3: Yeah, my workspace looks a bit like orks have been doing the sorting.. I still need a paint-holder-thing (forgot name) that tidies that and though my bits boxes are ordened on army.. everything else is all over the place because I'm too spread out with other things in life (@ the gym twice a day, studying and such)

4: Thanks for the advice, sometimes you need a reminder, I sure did.. ' been slacking way too much in the ordening-department.

-Leopold Helveine.

My wife picked up a nice 10 drawer container/shelf/cabinent thing, and my pile of shame broke down beautifully into it, so i never have to look at it lol.

like people above said, there are far worse, I consider myself a relatively fast painter and I still have 3+ armies and odds and ends from various projects; one suggestion I can give you is keeping the project not working on out of sight, and update/photograph your finished projects, it will give you a boost in motivation.

look at my long list still, comparing to the finished ones: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/767743.page